Meet the Latest Kennedy Making Headlines

In March, Kyra Kennedy made her entrance for Dolce & Gabbana's pajama party on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue decked out in a sheer black skirt and an ornate black-and-gold headdress.

A photographer snapped photos and Kyra was a natural: The 20-year-old has been appearing on red carpets for more than half her life. Her first step-and-repeat was at the Annual Mint Jubillee in 2002. But instead of a chic headpiece, her accessory was a well-loved doll with matching royal blue dress.

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With the last name Kennedy, attention is unavoidable. But Kyra is the latest out of Camelot to become a fixation for New York's gossip columns.

Kyra's father is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist whose dad was Senator Robert F. Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy. Her mother was Mary Kennedy, who died in 2012. Robert has since remarried Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines.

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Hines appeared alongside Kyra and her dad when she made her debut into society at her Debutante Ball in 2013 in Paris. She was one of twenty debs hand-picked for the high-society event, along with British royal Lady Amelia Windsor and Romy David, Larry David's daughter.

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By the time she got that honor, Kyra had already interned for Dior and Kenneth Cole. The young fashionista told AFP the day of the ball: "It's my first time wearing haute couture."

Today, Kyra is finishing up her freshman year at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology. She spends her free time hanging out with a crew the New York Times recently dubbed "The Snap Pack" (for their affinity for Snapchat and other social media sharing). It includes bold-faced progeny like Gaia Matisse, daughter of painter Henri Matisse, Peter Brant Jr., son of model Stephanie Seymour, and Reya Benitez, daughter of musician Jellybean Benitez. Tiffany Trump, youngest daughter of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has also been known to hang with her crowd.

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Kyra told The Times she began spending time with the group last year after meeting fashion designer Andrew Warren who, she said, "scooped me up in Aspen." Her nickname in the group is, "Hester."

It was with some of these friends when Kyra made her first splash in the gossip pages last year. She was refused entry at a nightclub upstate when she reportedly yelled at security: "I am a Kennedy, Google me!"

"A security guard took Kick's passport from Kyra and asked her to recite her birth date, and she didn't know it. He then caught her trying to look up Kick's birthday on Wikipedia on her phone," an unnamed witness told the outlet.

Kyra told DuJour magazine that the incident was "basically fabricated," and that she "couldn't bear to see anyone," after the news broke. "My dad said, 'I'm sorry, but hiding is not the right thing to do. You just have to face the truth and be like, this is not me. This is not true.' " (Kyra did not respond to interview requests from Bazaar.com.)

Page Six reported last month that Kyra's dad had also ordered her to get off of social media after feuding with a writer on Instagram. However, her accounts appear to be back up.

By the looks of those pages, Kyra also stays close with her out-of-the-spotlight relatives. Her Facebook page is peppered with comments and likes from Kennedys and Shrivers. In fact, she's listed as married to her cousin Chessy Shriver.

Her siblings include Robert, Conor, Kathleen who goes by "Kick," William who goes by "Fin," and Aiden. Conor, of course, famously dated Taylor Swift.

Though Kyra's life seems ripe for reality TV, don't get your hopes up. She told DuJour: "I think that it's just selling yourself, and it's not an attractive look. I don't believe in it."